Londoncityslicker wrote:
On 8 Jun, 12:07, sweek wrote:
According to this news article from 2005 (http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp?...=/en/0_0/press...
), the new DLR rolling stock

"(...) are scheduled to be delivered between May 2007 and September
2008."

Since it's June now, I wonder if anyone has any updates on what is
happening? Is there a delay?

I wish they'd also make them look a bit more attractive.
Paint them New York Subway silver? give them a bullet train nose?

The NY subway cars are not painted silver, they are bare stainless
steel. From the 1959 tube stock to 1983 tube stock all London
Underground trains were finished in unpainted aluminium, and after
repeated vandalism and cleaing, they looked very poor. The current
paint is much an improvement. The trouble with bullet noses is they
take up space where units couple together. LU looked into this idea
with their 1935 prototype trains (very impressive machines, especially
compared with the standard stock that went before), but dispensed with
them for the production 1938 tube stock.

One of it's nicknames was the toy town railway.
And it looks even more dated now.

Trouble is fashions change more rapidly than the lifespan of a railway
vehicle, and it's often cheaper to order a follow on to an existing
design (that works well in service) than start again designing and
certifying a new design. In the UK cost fashion generally.

Not great for a hi tech part of London (the country/Europe)

And like the thouands of new buses, I dont suppose they'll fit air
conditioning either.

Aircon is of uncertain utility where there are so many, frequent stops
as on the DLR. You would only just start cooling the air down before
you let more hot air in by opening all the doors.

Robin